Hair-strainer for hatters&#39; kettles.



No. 683,265; Patented Sept. 24, lam;-

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(Application flle i July 10. 1901.)

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MANNING R. FOSTER, JR, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

HAIR-STRAINER FOR HATTERS KETTLES.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,265, dated September 24, 1901.

Application filed July 10,1901. fierlal No. 67,798. (No model.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MANNING R. FOSTER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Strainers for Hatters Kettles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to remove from the hatters kettle in the art of sizing hats the hair which works out from the hatbody during the sizing operation, so that the water in said kettle will remain free from such hair and the said hair will not retard or otherwise interfere with the hatters sizing operations or render the hats more or less defective by attachment to the felt, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the Working parts.

The invention consists in the improved furretrainer and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several views, Figure 1 shows in section a kettle, at the center of which is arranged a coil of pipe, to one of the vertical extensions of which my improved strainer is attached. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the strainer, taken at line y, Fig. 8. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken at line a: of Fig. 2 and showing the coil of steam-pipes in plan.

In said drawings, a indicates a kettle, box, or tank for hot water in which the hat bodies are submerged during the sizing operation or process, as usual.

I) is the coil of steam pipe for heating the water, as usual, I) being a vertical extension through which the steam is fed to the coil, and I) being an exhaust extension of the coil. To one of said vertical extensions is secured dome, as indicated in Fig. 2.

l a bracket 0, which is adjustable to enable the strainer to be suspended over that part of the coil at which there is the greatest ebullition, and from said bracket the strainer is removably suspended by means of a hook or connection or otherwise. Of said strainer, 6 indicates a bell or dome of perforated sheet metal having at the top means to receive the hook, so that said bell or dome may be suspended from said hook or bracket, and f is an inverted funnel detachably secured to the lower open end of the bell or dome, closing the same, so that the tip-boiling water will be conducted through the upwardly-extending small end g of the funnel lying within the The funnel f forms a partition within the dome, separating the central feed-water passage g from the straining-chamber h. The funnel is separably attached to the dome by means of catches or fasteners z', the upper side of the flaring end of the funnel being provided with an annular flange j, in which the lower end of the dome fits. The said dome is prevented from swaying within the kettle'by means of a holder 70, which is U-shaped in cross-section and engages the pipe 17, said pipe lying in the groove of said holder.

In operating the device the strainer is suspended from the bracket over the coil of steam-pipes where the boiling of the water is 'most active. The water containing the hair passes upward into the funnel and enters the large chamber h, near the top of the dome. From this point the water flows outwardly and through the perforations in said dome, but the hair is caught andheld within the chamber. The body of water within the kettle is thus kept clear, so that little or no time is lost in keeping the hat-bodies free from hairs or in renewing the water.

The device is applicable to the boxes or tanks of sizing-machines, as well as to the kettles of hand operators.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. The improved strainer for hatters ket tles or machine-boxes comprising a perforated bell or dome adapted to be arranged within the kettle and an inverted funnel, the larger end of which lies at the mouth of the bell and the smaller end of which extends upward into the said bell, a chamber being formed between the funnel and the bell to entrap the hair, substantially, as set forth.

2. The combination with the steam-pipe and coil, of a bracket, a perforated bell or dome suspended from said bracket and a funnel for conducting the Water into said perforated dome, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with coiled pipe having a Vertical extension, of a bracket adj ustably secured to said extension, a suspended strainer having a funnel-shaped part for conducting the boiling water thereto, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with suspensory perforated dome, 'of a separable funnel leading the water into said dome, substantially as set forth. r

5. The combination with the perforated dome having a holder at one side and suspensory means at the top, of a separable funnel and means for holding said parts removably together, substantially asset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of July, 1901. v X MANNING R. FOSTER, JR. W'itnessesi Y K I CHARLES H. PELL,

C. B. PITNEY. 

